Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Datacraft's Just Renewed Its Website Imagenavi.jp

Sapporo, Japan, April 28, 2006. Datacraft Co. Ltd, who is the NO.1 stock photo company in Japan, has just renewed its website imagenavi.jp, http://imagenavi.jp/.

By our elaborated analysis for usability, its simple and user-friendly navigation has been brought to realization. We are sure to get more customers by this time´s site renewal.

ACD Systems Updates ACDSee 8 and ACDSee Pro Photo Manager

Company renews commitment to customers with added RAW support and feature improvements

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April. 27, 2006. ACD Systems International Inc. (TSX: ASA), today announced updates to its two flagship products, ACDSee 8 Photo Manager and ACDSee Pro Photo Manager. The enhancements are designed to improve speed, performance and productivity, and include advanced support for RAW formats that meet and exceed industry demands.

Anness Publishing Launches Practical Pictures With Over 500,000 Images

London, April 25, 2006. Anness Publishing Ltd. launched Practical Pictures Ltd., a picture library that has opened up its vast resource of thousands of practical lifestyle images and text. Anness Publishing has been producing high-quality illustrated books for over 15 years to publish under its world-wide Lorenz, Aquamarine and Southwater imprints. During that time over 3,000 separate titles have been created, featuring more than 500,000 colour photographs and artworks specially taken and exclusively owned.

While Anness Publishing has sold images in the past, the creation of this focused picture library has fused a traditional book-based image resource with leading-edge technology, making an immense stock of photographs, artwork and text available online for the first time.

Image Tricks 2.0 Generates And Edits Images

Odessa, Ukraine, April 26th, 2006. BeLight Software releases freeware Image Tricks 2.0. New version allows users to create unique images using image generator feature and apply various Tiger Core visual effects. The results can be used as backgrounds, web-design illustrations, for print materials and more. From now Image Tricks is also available in Pro version (priced at $9.95), which contains 6 additional image generators. http://www.belightsoft.com/imagetricks/

ImageVortex.com presents an affordable royalty-free stock photography collection aimed to compete with rights-managed images

Bradenton, FL, April 24, 2006. ImageVortex.com is pleased to announce a hand picked royalty-free image collection that is aimed to compete with rights managed collections, traditionally known for their utmost quality. Rights managed (also known as RM) stock image collections have always been referred to as the ultimate source of highest quality imagery for most business needs. But they are often much more expensive than images available on a royalty-free basis. Aside of price considerations, customers tend to like the fact that royalty-free images can be used more than once and do not require additional royalty payments after initial purchase.

a21 Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results

Fourth Quarter Revenue Increases 38% Driven by Strong Organic Growth

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 26, 2006. a21, Inc. ("a21") (OTCBB: ATWO), a leading online digital content marketplace for creative professionals, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005.

Introducing ShutterStock Footage(TM); ShutterStock(TM), Leading Stock Photo Agency, Launches Video Capabilities

NEW YORK, April 26, 2006. ShutterStock(TM) (www.ShutterStock.com), the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world, announced today that ShutterStock Footage(TM) is now LIVE at footage.shutterstock.com. ShutterStock Footage is a resource for premium, royalty-free video footage. The launch represents another milestone for ShutterStock, the first among their competitors to branch from still photography into video, in a year marked by tremendous growth.

OnAsia Digital Keywords National Gallery's Picture Library

ONASIA DIGITAL KEYWORDS NATIONAL GALLERY OF LONDON COLLECTION

BANGKOK, Thailand, April 26th, 2006. As it prepares to launch an upgrade of its online picture service this May, the National Gallery’s Picture Library in London has announced that it worked with Bangkok-based keywording company OnAsia Digital (www.onasiadigital.com) to index its imagery. The project involved adding comprehensive keyword sets to digital reproductions of some of the world's most famous works of art.

ASMP SEEKS DYNAMIC SOLUTIONS TO ORPHAN WORKS DILEMMA

Philadelphia, PA, April 25, 2006. While remaining committed to seeking legislative solutions to the Orphan Works issue, ASMP´s board of directors is also seeking technology and business solutions to be utilized by visual artists.

"Our members need new tools and services to deal with Orphan Works and the expanding digital marketplace. We must make it easier for rights holders to be located." says newly elected ASMP president Clem Spalding.

Getty Images Appointed as Official Photographer to The European Tour in New Four Year Agreement

25 Apr 2006. Getty Images today announced that it has signed a four-year agreement with The European Tour. This exclusive agreement will enable The European Tour to access and incorporate Getty Images’ broad golf content into a wide variety of communication tools, including The European Tour Website (www.europeantour.com), the prestigious European Tour Yearbook, and all their below-the-line campaigns over the next four years. The European Tour will also benefit from imagery captured from assignments specifically undertaken by Getty Images at the request of The European Tour.